2160. Verse 4 Let now a little water be taken, and [all of you] wash your feet, and recline under the tree.

'Let now a little water be taken' means that they were to draw near and bring themselves down from Divine things nearer to His intellectual concepts. 'And wash your feet' means that they were to take on something natural so that during the state He was then passing through His perception might be improved. 'And recline under the tree' means towards the perception of the state through which He was passing, 'tree' meaning perception.

37. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 37

1-5 Of those who repented, and consulted truths of doctrine, (3)

6-7 and perceived that those who blasphemed the Lord will perish. (3, 2, 11)

8-13 They blasphemed still more violently, as [in the assertion] that He could be of no avail whatever against them. (3, 4)

14-20 Those who consulted doctrine from the Word repented, and prayed unto the Lord for help against the blasphemers, (3, 11)

21-27 and received answer in their heart, that those who blasphemed the Lord will perish; and this blasphemy is likewise treated of. (3, 15)

28-29 Therefore it will go no farther,, (3, 15)

30-32 because a new church will come into existence in its time; (11)

33-35 and therefore the old church will not be destroyed as yet; (2)

36-38 nevertheless, they are to be utterly destroyed. (2, 3)